Public utilities provide electric, gas, water or telephone service to customers in a specified area. Utilities have a duty to provide safe and adequate service on reasonable terms to anyone who lives within the service area on without discriminating between customers. Because most utilities operate in near monopolistic conditions, they can be heavily regulated by local, state, and federal authorities. Generally, the local and state agencies are called Public Service Commissions (PSC) or Public Utility Commissions (PUC). Municipal Utilities and Rural Electric Cooperatives may be unregulated though.
Cedar Creek is an unincorporated community located about 11 miles west of Bastrop in Bastrop County, Texas, United States, near the intersection of Texas State Highway 21 and Farm to Market Road 535. Although it is unincorporated, Cedar Creek has a post office, with the ZIP code of 78612.